'Broadchurch' Finale Sneak Peek: Ellie and Hardy Interrogate Lee
Broadchurch’s second season comes to a close this week with the promise of Hardy (David Tennant) and Ellie (Olivia Colman) solving the Sandbrook case. In the exclusive sneak peek above, they interrogate Lee (James D'Arcy), whose estranged wife Claire (Eve Myles) viewers watched march up to Hardy in the penultimate episode and hand over the pendant victim Pippa had been wearing.
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Of course, that episode also ended with the announcement that the jury had reached a verdict in Joe’s murder trial — and we’ll hear it early in the finale. Is there a part of actor Matthew Gravelle that wishes Joe had gotten to testify? “Absolutely,” he tells Yahoo TV. “I’m sure Joe would have made a complete mess of it, but yes. I’d kind of been mute in a glass box watching everybody else speaking, so it would have been a bit of a release, a bit of a catharsis, to be able to actually speak myself.”
Watching the other characters testify wasn’t easy, he says. “I did find it very difficult because that’s the one thing that was kind of a luxury to me in not being able to testify — I got to really listen to everything, so I could react as honestly as I could to whatever was going on. So the hardest thing to see was my son trying to cover for me, bless his heart, and seeing my wife out there as well, and also seeing Mark, best friend, that was tough — him trying to keep it together and doing his best but still crumbling.”
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The Broadchurch Season 2 finale airs April 22 at 10 p.m. on BBC America. Come back to Yahoo TV afterward for postmortems with Gravelle and executive producer Jane Featherstone.
